Speaking about expressive means and stylistic devices it is necessary to underline their splendid usage. They help to present the characters, to create the general atmosphere of the novel. Here you are to observe the cases of epithets:

Mildred

•         “kindly dignity”;
•       “wavy bronzebrown bang”;
•        “her face milk-white”;
•   “the inexplicable look”;

Fred

• “the clumsy farmhands”;

• “the rough attire”;

•  “unmannerly farmhand”;

• “disagreeable-looking man”

The farm and the nature

• “the undulating wheat”
• “a reflected golden light”;
• “the bending wheat”;
• “the gentle breeze”
  

Hyperbole  - “he has a heart of gold, if he is the first crank in America." (characterization of Fred); “I am the most consummate hound that walks the earth."
Simile:
·        “The house itself was big and broad, as country houses should be.”
·        “This was no such farm as one reads about in humorous fiction.”
·        “…..undulating wheat gleamed in the sun like a golden sea….”
·        “She remained like one who has drunk much wine".
Metaphor - it is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics. The novel presents numerous examples of the usage of the metaphor:
The nature

• “the trill that it answered to the gentle breeze”;

• “to seek in this retired spot the repose”

Fred

• “he has a heart of gold”;
• “Then a sudden, quick wave came beating into his brown throat and staining it crimson”;
• “the sun had made him …brown”.

Mildred “Mildred's brown eyes filled with a reflected golden light”; “Her cheeks were ripe with color that the sun had coaxed there”; “Shame stunned her.”; “Only the birds had seen, and she could count on their discretion.” “long a hideous truth had been thrusting itself upon her “; “A feminine commiseration swept her”; “For her part, the situation began to pall”; “a hateful burden to bear alone”; “the inexplicable look stayed with her. Litotes: “A not unpicturesque figure”. Meiosis: “He spoke never a word”. Metonymy: “Monosyllables belong to a boor's equipment”; “He isn't a bit intellectual detests Ibsen and abuses Tolstoi”. Synecdoche: “Farmhands are not so very nice to look at” Periphrasis: “She feared it.” – she was afraid not of the fact that “she herself could be mad, but of a strong feeling of love, which took possession over her. Irony: “she was nothing of an anthropologist”.